Episode 194: Celebrating Reunification, Listening to God's Call, & Resting Regularly (w/ Ryan MacDonald)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Do you remember how you first became aware of the foster care community? Maybe someone close to you started fostering? Maybe your spouse invited you to pray about pursuing this? Or perhaps a certain statistic impacted your heart?
Ryan MacDonald attributes becoming aware of the needs within the foster care community through his wife's passion for the topic and a class he took in school about how as followers of Jesus we can engage society. Ryan describes it as his wife pulling on one arm and the Lord pulling on the other. (Maybe you can relate?) He is now involved in the foster care community at a variety of levels—at work, through the church he pastors, and within his own family.
Ryan is a follower of Jesus, husband, an adoptive, foster, and biological dad, pastor, and the Regional Director of Foster the City over Los Angeles and Orange County in California. He is a self-proclaimed coffee snob but believes there is a time and place for diner coffee. In his spare time, he loves spending time with his wife, all things theology, basketball, and playing with his kids.
In this episode, Ryan shares openly about his experience as a foster parent, the importance of celebrating reunification, the reality that foster parenting is a skill you get better at over time, and so much more. This was one of my favorite conversations I've had on the podcast!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, it's Jamie. And before we get into the show, I am coming to you to have a little |
| 0:05.6 | family meeting at my house when I want to get the kids around some big idea or make sure |
| 0:13.4 | we're all on the same page. We call a family meeting and that's what I'm doing today. |
| 0:18.0 | I really value you. You as our listeners, I have met so many of you. I've heard from |
| 0:25.0 | so many of you. And I'm telling you, I love it. I love getting to do this with you. And I want to |
| 0:31.2 | let you know of something really cool that's happening here. We have a really special matching grant opportunity. Now, this is the first |
| 0:40.3 | time we've had a matching grant of this size. I announced this a couple weeks ago, but we have a |
| 0:47.1 | $20,000 matching grant. We have a generous ministry partner who really wanted to encourage generosity in you. |
| 0:57.4 | And they wanted to celebrate with us this big milestone we recently announced of |
| 1:04.1 | surpassing one million downloads on the podcast. |
| 1:10.1 | And so when they originally told us this, they extended this |
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